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DESCRIPTION:With reports coming in of wretched conditions at the Homeless (Lack of) 
 Services Center, along with an essentially closed program that requires a 
 'path to housing" (i.e. government money) to get in, it's little wonder the 
 Freedom Sleepers continues to gather each Tuesday night in front of City 
 Hall to defy the City's Sleeping Ban for unhoused people.  \n\nRecent 
 Freedom Sleep-outs are discussed and pictured in "Getting a Good Night's 
 Sleep with the Freedom Sleepers" at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/19/18791433.php\n\nUPCOMING FORUM 
 ON "HOMELESSNESS" MAY TOUCH ON LOCAL CIVIL RIGHTS\nThe local ACLU [American 
 Civil Liberties Union] has announced an open "Forum on Homelessness" 
 featuring Fresno writer and activist Mike Rhodes to be held Wednesday 
 October 5th 7-9 PM at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History at 705 Front 
 St.  More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/665941013582814/   
 \n\nOther City Council candidate forums where homeless advocates may want 
 to raise unmentionable issues from the audience or by protest inside or 
 outside the event include  September 21 6:30 PM: Democratic Central 
 Committee Endorsement Forum, Community Foundation 7807 Soquel Dr. Aptos • 
  September 22 6-9 PM  Downtown Association Candidate Forum, 307 Church 
 St.\n\n\nSALINAS SLEEPING BAN UP FOR VOTE\nSalinas City Council is slated 
 to consider First Reading of an anti-homeless sleeping ban dressed up as a 
 "Camping Ban" which criminalizes "camping equipment" such as sleeping bags. 
 \n \nThe staff report is at staff report at 
 https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2016/09/16/council_report_re_camping_ordinance__final_.pdf 
 .  \n\nThe proposed law is at 
 https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2016/09/16/camping_ordinance__final_.pdf .  
  It's apparently designed to remove peaceful nighttime protesters who have 
 slept nightly outside Salinas City Hall for nearly six months now.  \n\nSee 
 "Speak Out Against the Proposed Camping/Loitering Ordinance at Salinas City 
 Council Meeting " at 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/17/18791376.php\n\nOrganizer Wes 
 White, who has videoed and supported the Santa Cruz Freedom Sleepers and 
 backed supposedly pro-homeless Santa Cruz City Council candidates  has 
 expressed dismay at their failure to respond to what he describes as a 
 historic confrontation today at Salinas City Hall (200 Lincoln Ave.)  at 3 
 PM.   He encourages reciprocity between activists in the two cities and 
 urges folks to come today.  Contact Robert Norse at 831-423-4833 for more 
 transportation information.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/20/18791493.php
SUMMARY:Freedom Sleepers Bed Down for #63 While Salinas Fights Camping Ban
LOCATION:At the edge of the seat of government--Santa Cruz City Hall--unholy 
 birthplace place of anti-homeless laws.  Banned from peaceful protest at 
 night, the sleepers will be positioned on the Center St. sidewalk and 
 assorted spots nearby throughout the night and into the morning.  The 
 Sleep-Out will run from Tuesday afternoon through mid-morning 
 Wednesday.\n\nThere will be no City Council meeting today (every 2nd and 
 4th Tuesday are the regular times).  City bathrooms have recently been 
 "closed for vandalism"; city employees have their own special bathrooms to 
 use behind locked doors not available to the public.   New portapotties 
 reinforced with wooden structure --instead of opening existing bathrooms at 
 night--are only open after 10 PM.  They can be found at the parking lot 
 adjacent to Cedar and Union streets, another at the corner of Cedar and 
 Lincoln, kitty-corner from the Calvary Episcopal Church.  No \n\nReports 
 from the levee suggest anti-homeless hysteria masquerading as "public 
 safety" has prompted both increased police and ranger harassment of the 
 citizenry generally who linger along the levee path, even during the day.  
 Ricardo Lopez, a levee resident, reports massive bulldozing of brush along 
 the levee to uncover the small population of survival campers there.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/20/18791493.php
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